George FitzRoy, 4th Duke of Grafton

George Henry FitzRoy, 4th Duke of Grafton, KG (January 14 1760 – September 28 1844) was a British peer and Whig politician, known as Earl of Euston from birth until 1811.

Euston was the son of Augustus Fitzroy, 3rd Duke of Grafton and his wife Anne, daughter of Henry Liddell, 1st Baron Ravensworth. He was educated at Harrow School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he became a close friend of the William Pitt the Younger. From 1782-84, he was Member of Parliament for Thetford and in 1784, he and Pitt were elected as MPs for Cambridge University and Euston held the seat until succeeding to his father's duchy in 1811.

Family

Grafton married Lady Charlotte Maria Waldegrave (1761–1808), daughter of James Waldegrave, 2nd Earl Waldegrave, on 16 November 1784 at Navestock, Essex. They had eleven children:

* Lady Maria (Mary) Anne (1785–1855), married Sir William Oglander, 6th Baronet and had issue.
* Lady Georgiana (1787–1855), unmarried
* Lady Elizabeth Anne (1788–1867), married her first cousin John Henry Smyth and had issue.
* Henry, styled Earl of Euston, later 5th Duke of Grafton (1790–1863)
* Lord Charles (1791–1865), married Lady Anne Cavendish (daughter of George Cavendish, 1st Earl of Burlington) and had issue.
* Lady Isabella Frances (1792–1875), married Henry Joseph St. John (d.1857)
* Hon. William (1794–1804)
* Hon. Hugh (1795–1797)
* Hon. Richard (1798–1798)
* Hon. Richard (1800–1801)
* Lord James (1804–1834)

References

* [http://www.burkes-peerage.net Burke's Peerage & Gentry]
* [http://www.oxforddnb.com Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]